There was much confusion about canon law procedures concerning the dismissal of a priest from the priesthood, Adelaide's Archbishop Philip Wilson told a Royal Commission hearing yesterday, the Daily Mail reports.

Almost 90 per cent of Catholic schools in the Wollongong Diocese have voted to strike to draw attention to their negotiations with the Catholic Commission for Employment Relations, the Illawarra Mercury reports.

Malaysia's highest court ruled today that the Catholic newspaper The Herald has no grounds to appeal a lower court's decision preventing it from using the word Allah to refer to God, The Malay Mail Online reports.